nixers

Hello hunters ! It's been quite a while since my one, but I'm here with a new Internt Scavenger Hunt ! This one has been cooking for the past year, and this is with great pleasure that I advertise it...

z3bra

Off topic

1,898

18-10-2023, 07:06 AM

Thread: What shell do you guys use?
Post: RE: What shell do you guys use?

(11-09-2023, 05:38 AM)Dworin Wrote: It's installed by default and I'm too lazy to change it. No prob, just wait for the next shellshock bug so someone can do it for you remotely ;)

z3bra

BSD

114

76,039

12-09-2023, 12:49 PM

Thread: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Post: RE: Help needed to build a lookup tables

Alright, that was quick ! We crushed through the 3Gib (and beyond!) in barely 3 days. Thanks to those who sent me hashes, you're legends!

z3bra

Security & Cryptography

2,157

18-08-2023, 09:18 AM

Thread: Help needed to build a lookup tables
Post: Help needed to build a lookup tables

Hey everyone, I need an Argon2id hash lookup table for a project I'm working on. The thing is, I need A LOT of them (the final final must be around 2/3Gib). I did the math, that's ~20,000,000 hashes....

z3bra

Security & Cryptography

2,157

14-08-2023, 07:45 PM

Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole

(29-10-2022, 11:07 PM)ckester Wrote: Just a heads-up: The gopher proxy on vulpes.one hasn't been working lately, so any http links to gopherholes that use it will be broken. The g.nixers gopher se...

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

22,035

03-11-2022, 07:02 AM

Thread: Password management
Post: RE: Password management

I did an experiment with a pass-like password manager, to get around the filenames issues : Basically add an entry named "index", containing all your entries names. Then, using a wrapper, hash the pa...

z3bra

Security & Cryptography

51,939

13-10-2022, 07:27 PM

Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips

Workspaces can be reduced to a list on windows to show at a given time. Say you start on ws#0. When you "switch" to ws#2, you save the list of currently visible windows, hide them, then get the list o...

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

23,217

09-02-2022, 07:22 AM

Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary

(17-12-2021, 03:49 PM)venam Wrote: I'm wondering if this isn't too much information disclosure though, because the mac address can inform you about the manufacturer. This is a legitimate concern, an...

z3bra

Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

188

178,773

20-12-2021, 08:34 AM

Thread: wmutils tricks and tips
Post: RE: wmutils tricks and tips

This is not possible to do, while maintaining the way xmmv works right now. The behavior you expect involves that xmmv runs as a background process, while grabbing the shortcut Mod4+click. By doing so...

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

23,217

14-12-2021, 01:59 PM

Thread: Where is what
Post: RE: Where is what

I don't know which shell you're using, but you can do the same by prefixing the command with \ in most shells (even dash(1)): Code:% alias ls='ls -l' % ls code data tmp % \ls code data tmp

z3bra

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

9,086

29-11-2021, 07:50 PM

Thread: rm -i
Post: RE: rm -i

As said above, you can simply "rm -rf directory" as it will expand to "rm -i -rf directory" and -f takes precedence over -i.

z3bra

BSD

7,530

21-11-2021, 03:55 PM

Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole

Should be fixed now. I inadvertently pushed the default index.gph of the server's project, which took precedence over the correct one. Sorry about that and happy gophering !

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

22,035

19-11-2021, 03:34 AM

Thread: Web Tag
Post: RE: Web Tag

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/co...-edit.html Keep it up ! [Image: https://0x0.st/-Rpf.png]

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

35,407

16-11-2021, 07:27 AM

Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole

It's just that the server wasn't registered to start on boot. This should be fixed now.

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

22,035

04-11-2021, 06:22 AM

Thread: Community gopher hole
Post: RE: Community gopher hole

It was indeed, the gopher daemon didn't start after the reboot. Not sure why thouhg… Thanks for the notice, it should be back up now !

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

22,035

03-11-2021, 06:02 AM

Thread: The Gemini protocol
Post: RE: The Gemini protocol

@freem, dude you're overreacting a bit there. You seem to take it personally at this point 😂 I used to think just like you, specifically about the crypto part. However, I've been digging through crypt...

z3bra

The WWW

12,964

25-10-2021, 10:58 AM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I've been working on a Go based file sharing system (posing as an HTTP server). Result is here: partage. I wanted a self-hosted solution for my family to share big files (eg. pictures, videos, …). In...

z3bra

Programming On Unix

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25-10-2021, 06:36 AM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

z3bra

Programming On Unix

414

305,421

25-10-2021, 06:29 AM

Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands

You guys should mount your download directory as TMPFS 😉 This way everything I download goes to ~/tmp and is wiped as I reboot. So when I download archives, I extract them right in ~/tmp, and only mov...

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

8,524

25-10-2021, 05:47 AM

Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands

Why the hell do you guys use rm(1) so much ?

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

8,524

20-10-2021, 02:39 PM

Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs

(15-10-2021, 12:49 PM)freem Wrote: This tool (sorry z3bra) also seems to only support power of two units, not power of 10 ones (unit(1) might be able to do that, though, not sure). Haha no problem. ...

z3bra

Programming On Unix

36,060

17-10-2021, 07:54 AM

Thread: Your top 10 commands
Post: RE: Your top 10 commands

Holy cow that post was 1 year ago already ! Good retrospective, given that your top command is vim, I'd suggest aliasing it 😉 That's funny to see you use tree rather than ls. isn't it too verbose when...

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

8,524

15-10-2021, 02:26 AM

Thread: webzine
Post: RE: webzine

Good idea ! I tried to start a similar thing in the past, but it never caught up… A few links: https://nixers.net/Thread-Nixers-magazine https://github.com/nixers-projects/magazine https://i.imgur....

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

6,550

12-10-2021, 12:13 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

I decided to make my email stack more robust, so I built a secondary mail server to queue up mails in the event that my primary server goes down. Turns out, it's super easy with opensmtp ! I did that ...

z3bra

Programming On Unix

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01-10-2021, 02:11 PM

Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?

(30-09-2021, 04:36 AM)Ssynicil Wrote: I've been trying to increase my knowledge on computers and have began running linux (more specifically the Ubuntu distribution) through a virtual machine. Prett...

z3bra

Programming On Unix

414

305,421

01-10-2021, 02:07 PM

Thread: window manager development thread
Post: RE: window manager development thread

(13-09-2021, 01:11 AM)seninha Wrote: But it is too slow to redraw the window at every mouse motion... There is another solution: only redraw every once in a while. Mouse motion events occur at a rea...

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

5,636

13-09-2021, 08:58 AM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

No idea, I didn't look it up in a while.

z3bra

GNU/Linux

8,087

10-09-2021, 03:31 AM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

404 ?? shows just fine to me. https://z3bra.org/pm or https://git.z3bra.org/pm (the website is a glorified version of the readme file). I also wish musl had better support !

z3bra

GNU/Linux

8,087

01-09-2021, 04:31 PM

Thread: how do you know which tools you (really) use?
Post: RE: how do you know which tools you (really) use?

It's funny that you mention that your "mindmap" looks like a roadmap to create a new distro. In the process of making a distro myself (which I never accomplished btw), I wrote a package manager for my...

z3bra

Community & Forums Related Discussions

2,505

30-08-2021, 03:03 PM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

So I finally managed to do everything I wanted, and get my very own configuration working. There are multiple key points, so I'll list them here: X.org session startup Ubuntu 21.04 ships with GDM3 a...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

30-08-2021, 01:15 PM

Thread: Picking a new distribution
Post: RE: Picking a new distribution

Best reason to use Void is to have a fully working musl-based distro in no times, and easy to use. However, last time I tried (probably monthes/a year ago now), a 100% musl distro was painful in some ...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

8,087

30-08-2021, 11:19 AM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

Ubuntu default's session is Xorg, but wayland is supported also. I didn't want to "hack" around the distro, that is, leave GDM running, change TTY and login+xinit. If I'm stuck with a distro, I might...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

30-08-2021, 06:51 AM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

Window management mostly. And some application launchers that I use (xmenu, sxhkd, dmenu) for which I need the ability to start them when the session starts. In this regard, there are also a lot of th...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

22-08-2021, 01:34 PM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

Because my usage of a linux distribution goes beyond typing stuff at a shell. The softwares I'm used to is different from what's shipped by default on Ubuntu.

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

22-08-2021, 01:05 PM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

Mmmmh, for me it's my toolbox, and I spend 7+ hours working with it. I just can't convince myself that gnome-shell is the solution to my problems. To "work" on this issue, I decided to install it ahe...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

08-08-2021, 07:27 AM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: RE: How do I Ubuntu ?

I wish I had the choice.

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

06-08-2021, 04:48 PM

Thread: How do I Ubuntu ?
Post: How do I Ubuntu ?

Hello folks, This thread will be a little awkward (for me at least!). Next monday, I'll have my work laptop reinstalled under stock Ubuntu 21.04, as per my company's policies. The thing is, I have n...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

5,411

06-08-2021, 12:36 PM

Thread: Backing up and Deploying
Post: RE: Backing up and Deploying

Edit : Removed my whole description, because I'm stupid. I already described my setup last year, in this same thread. Like, 4 posts above… No need to spam redundant info here, sorry for the noise !

z3bra

Servers Administration, Networking, & Virtualization

23,636

04-08-2021, 08:46 AM

Thread: Launchers
Post: RE: Launchers

Mostly dmenu, bound to super+x. And I have my most used software launchable via a menu when I click the root window. Back when I ran wio on wayland, I liked that I could just fire up everything from ...

z3bra

GNU/Linux

20,397

20-07-2021, 03:03 AM

Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game

Yup that's it ! Well done ;)

z3bra

Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses

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05-07-2021, 04:38 AM

Thread: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]
Post: RE: Workflow Compilation [June Events 2021]

I wish I knew how to record the screen under wayland. Anyway, I don't have much to show off yet as I'm still figuring out how to make a usable wayland desktop. Looking forward to the full vid !

z3bra

Desktop Customization & Workflow

13,858

30-06-2021, 10:21 AM

Thread: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?
Post: RE: Which keyboard layout(s) do you use?

I use a modified version of the "new azerty" layout (french), created by the AFNOR committee. It's fresh and new, so don't have much adopters (eg, no manufacturer print it yet), but it makes much more...

z3bra

Off topic

36,406

24-06-2021, 05:05 AM

Thread: Making the best CLI programs
Post: RE: Making the best CLI programs

(21-06-2021, 06:23 AM)phillbush Wrote: Instead of a -h option for different programs to produce human readable values, use a utility, such as z3bra's human, that converts values from its input into ...

z3bra

Programming On Unix

36,060

24-06-2021, 04:59 AM

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